Lamp attachment for sad irons



(No Model.)

H. 0. FOX.

LAMP ATTACHMENT FOB SAD IRONS.

Patented Mar. 8, 1887.

'INVENTOR WITNESSES p11" 7 ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY 0. FOX, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE FOX SAD-IRON COMPANY, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

LAMP ATTACHMENT FOR SAD-IRONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,016, dated March 8. 1887.

Application filed November 10, 1985. Renewed January 21, 1851'. Serial No. 25,042. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- and engagement when adjusted of a spring- Be it known that l, HENRY C. FOX, of Evanscatch, C, substantially as described in my Letville, in the county of Vanderburg and State ters Patent hereinbefore referred to, only subof Indiana, haveinvented certain new and use stituting an elongated fiat spring, I), for a spi- 55 5 ful Improvements in Lamp Attachments for ral spring and duplicate locking-studs c c for Sad-Irons, of which the following is a full, a single one, to lock thehandle with the iron clear, and exact description. when adjusted.

This invention is more particularlydesigned The means for heating the iron, however, to be applied to reversible sad-irons in which by an attached lamp essentially differ. Thus 60 lo the iron or its body is made hollow, and is the reservoir D of the lamp, which holds the provided with heating devices within, and has alcohol or burning-fluid, is made to occupy an several faces, either one of which may be elevated position in rear of the handle of the brought into use by shifting the position of the iron, and is provided with ascrew-cap, d, prefhandle, which is adjusted in relation to the erably of considerable size, to give ready ac- 6 1 iron by means of a spring-catch, substantially cess to the interior of the reservoir and wick as shown and described in Letters Patent No. therein, to facilitate filling the reservoir and 265,401, issued to me October 3,1882, only difadjustment or renewal of the wick. The wickfering therefrom in certain details connecting tube E of the lamp is fitted to project up within the handle with the iron and spring-catch with the reservoir above the level of the fluid go the same. therein, so that the fluid cannot escape through The invention consists in the lamp and its the wick-tube into the body of the iron otherattachment with such or other hollow reversiwise than by capillary attraction through the ble sad-iron for heating the iron, substantially wick, thus avoiding waste of fluid and detrias hereinafter described, and pointed out in ment to the work by escaping fluid. 7 2 the claim, and whereby the iron may be more Below the reservoir the wick-tube E is bent uniformly and perfectly heated, the flame into form a forward horizontal arm, which protensified and regulated at pleasure, and the aljects within the body of the iron, or, rather, cohol or other burning-fluid used in the lamp within an air-supply tube, F, fitted to project economized and prevented from passing into within said body from its rear to or near the 80 the body of the iron. middle of the body, and which is made to in- Reference is to be had to the accompanying close the entering end portion of the wick-tube. drawings, forming part of this specification, Said air-tube F, which is open both in front in which similar figures of reference indicate and rear, is of larger area than the wicktube corresponding parts in all the figures. E, to allow of the free passage of a current or 8 5 Figure 1 represents a mainly sectional plan currents of air through it to feed the flame at upon the line 0c 00 in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertithe inner or front end of the wick G. The cal longitudinal section upon the line y 3 in horizontal portion of the wick-tube, which Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a transverse section upon passes within or through said air-tube, and

the line oz in Fig. 2 through the wick and air which is preferably slightly longer than the 0 40 tube of the heating attachment. air-tube, is supported within the air-tube by A indicates the hollow body of the iron, means of longitudinal ribs 6 on the interior which may be constructed with four workingsurface of the air-tube, leaving air-spaces f hefaces, a a a a, and with numerous holes at tween the wick-tube E and air-tube F. By the corners and ends,to permit of the escape of thus admitting air to the burning end of the 5 5 the products of combustion from the heating wick the flame is greatly intensified, and by devices within. sliding the wick-tube portion of the lamp,

B B B is the handle of said iron, fitted at which fits within the air-tube, in or out the the lower ends of its arms B B to the ends of flame may beregulated as desired. \Vhen thus the body A, to permit of said body or iron adjusted in or out to give agreater or less ex- I00 0 proper being turned to make either of its faces posure of the burning portion of the wick a a a a the working one, subject to control within or beyond the inner end of the air-tube F, the lamp and its attached wick-tube E are secured in position bya set-screw, 9, arranged to pass through a sleeve, h, 011 the lower end of the arm B of the handle, and through the air-tube F, and so as to bear against the side of the wick-tube E. The sleeve It forms the rear bearing of the handle for the body A of the iron to turn upon when being adjusted to put in proper position either of its workingfaces, a front bearing for said body also being provided 011 the lower end of the front arm of the handle. Said sleeve h has an annular groove, z, near its inner end, with which a reraining-screw, 7c, engages. The air-tube F is locked with the handle, when inserted, by a lip, Z, on it engaging with a notch, m, in the rear end of the ring or sleeve h, whereby said tube is prevented from turning, except in com mon with the handle.

By the isolated position of the lamp-reservoir at a distance from the body of the iron all heating and volatilization of the alcohol or burning-fluid in the reservoir of the lamp is effectually prevented.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I The air-supply tube F, provided with interior projections or ribs, e, in combination with the bent wick-tube E, adjustable longitudinally within said air supply tube, the elevated reservoir D of the lamp, the reversible hollow body A of the iron, the handle B B Bfland the lamp and wick-tube holding-screw 9, substantially as shown and described.

HENRY 0. FOX.

XVitnesscs:

A. GREGORY, G. SEncwIcK. 

